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What law says they are going to later be confiscated?
The law of common sense. What other reason could there be?
There is something sad about what has happened to California. I spent thirty days there in 1959 after returning from Okinawa, and I fell in love with the beautiful, peaceful San Francisco and places like Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and others. Before shipping out in '57 I spent some time at Pendleton and wandered around L.A. on the weekends, which I enjoyed. All in all I really liked California and planned to go back, which I never got around to doing. But now I wouldn't go to California if a golden opportunity presented itself -- and that's a damn shame. I feel a peculiar sense of loss.
California is a ruined place and it was ruined by the excessive presence of the wrong kind of people. The thought that comes to mind when I watch some of the YouTube videos of present-day California is it is best described as a raped state. It is a once beautiful place that has been raped and ruined. And it's the fault of the politicians who made it happen.